Is your IBM i disaster recovery plan always current?

By Tom Huntington

Is your disaster recovery plan always ready to go? The problem with most plans is that they are built manually. Consequently, the plan is only as good as the last time you updated it. How many of us maintain our procedures on the IBM i restore process manually? How many of these plans are out of date and don't reflect the current backup strategy? How many of these plans require specific skill sets that prevent untrained staff from executing them? Have you ever failed an internal or external audit because of inadequate recovery plans?

These four essential steps help to ensure business continuity and survival.

To understand disaster recovery and information availability, take these initial steps and then calculate the business impact of downtime to select the right solution.

Provide the same robust high availability and data protection for AIX on System i as for native i5/OS environments.

For years, IBM and others have suggested using the LPAR and multiple operating system capabilities of System i to consolidate servers, thereby reducing administration costs while also taking advantage of the superior security and file system facilities on System i. Few companies have heeded this advice.